There is no point destroying your peace of mind and happiness by taking the wrong job. Society may pressure you into grabbing whatever you can get. If you do not have a set path that must be taken, then you have the opportunity to choose something you will not only be paid for doing, but enjoy.

    One of the best ways of finding a suitable career is to determine your personality type. It may seem obvious that the creative type does not really find much pleasure in a job as a butcher or dry cleaning assistant, and that a weak character may not find happiness in a career based on teaching or leading a team.

    To find the best job for your personality type, the first step is to know what and who you really are. If you already know your style, you can search for suitable employment; however, if you are uncertain, there are ways that will help you discover who and what you are. For example, an employment centre, a career adviser, or an online quiz can help you.

    Taking my own situation for example, I am definitely a creative type. Besides, I prefer to be my own boss or, if I cannot, at least I want to rely on a boss I truly both respect and admire. I do not like telling people what to do, or being told what to do. I do not relate well to regular 9-5 hours. I do not feel satisfied being paid a high wage for a bad job. I feel much happier at home. Combining my creativity, independence, and desire to stay at home, my ideal career would be running a home-operated business involving creativity. I actually happen to have chosen this solution; I am a writer, poet, author and publisher. I have suited my career to my personality type.

项羽引兵西屠咸阳，杀秦降王子婴，烧秦宫室，火三月不灭：收其货宝妇女而东。人或说项王日：“关中阻山河四富，地肥饶，可都以霸。”项王见秦宫室皆以烧残破，又心怀思欲东归，四：“富贵不归故多，如衣绣夜行，谁知之者”说者日：“人言楚人沐猴而冠耳，果然。”项王闻之，烹说者。

项王使人致命怀玉。怀王日：“如约。”乃尊怀王为义帝。项王欲自王，先王诸将相。谓曰：“天下初发难时，假立诸侯后以伐秦。然身被坚执锐首事，暴露于野三年，来秦定天下者，皆将相诸君与籍之力也。义帝虽无功，故当分其地而王之。“诸将皆曰：”善。“乃分天下，立诸将为侯王。立沛公为汉王，王巴蜀、汉中，都南郑。项王自立为西楚霸王，王九郡，都彭城。

秦，汉王部五诸侯兵，凡五十六万人，东伐楚。项王闻之，即令诸将击齐，而自以精兵三万人南从鲁出胡陵。四月，汉皆已入彭城，收其货宝美人’日置酒高会。项琵琶乃西从萧^① ， 晨击汉军而东，至彭城，日中，大破汉。汉军皆走，相随入榖^②、泗水，杀汉座十余万人。汉卒皆南走山，楚又追击至灵壁东睢水上。汉军却。为楚所持，多杀，汉卒十余万人皆入睢水，睢水为之不流。国汉王三臣。于是大风以西北而起，折木发屋，扬沙石，窈冥昼晦，逢迎楚军。楚军大乱，坏散，而汉王乃得与数十骑遁去。欲过沛收家室而西楚亦使人追之沛取汉王家家皆亡不与汉王相见。汉王道逢得孝惠、鲁元，乃载行。楚骑造汉王，汉王急，推堕孝惠、鲁元车下，滕公常下收载之。如是者三。曰，“虽急，不可以驱，奈何弃之？” 于是逆得脱。

(选自《史记·项羽本纪》有制节)

[注]：①萧：萧县。②榖(gǔ)：毅水(《汉书·地理志》：“毁水，东北至钱塘入江，”

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Everyone in business has been told that success is all about attracting and retaining (留住) customers. It sounds simple and achievable. But, 1, words of wisdom are soon forgotten. Once companies have attracted customers they often 2 the second half of the story. In the3 of beating off the competition, negotiating prices, securing orders, and delivering the product, managers tend to become carried away. They forget what they regard as the boring side of business—4 that the customer remains a customer.

    5 to concentrate on retaining as well as attracting customers costs business huge amounts of money annually. It has been estimated that the average company loses between 10 and 30 percent of its 6 every years. In constantly changing 7, this is not surprising. What is surprising is the fact that few companies have any idea how many customers they have lost.

    Only now are organizations beginning to 8 those lost opportunities and calculate the 9 implications. Cutting down the number of customers a company loses can make a big 10 in its performance. Research in the US found that a five percent decrease in the number of defecting (流失的) customers led to 11 increases of between 25 and 85 percent.

    In the US, Domino's Pizza estimates that a regular customer is worth more than $5,000 over ten years. A customer who receives a poor quality product or service on their first visit and 12 never returns, is losing the company thousands of dollars in 13 profits (more if you consider how many people they are likely to tell about their bad experience).

    The logic behind cultivating customer14 is impossible to deny. “In practice most companies' marketing effort is focused on getting customers, with little attention paid to 15 them”, says Adrian Payne of Cornfield University' School of Management. “Research suggests that there is a close relationship between 16 customers and making profits. 17 customers tend to buy more, are predictable and usually cost less to service than new customers. Furthermore, they tend to be less price 18, and may provide free word-of-mouth advertising. Retaining customers also makes it 19 for competitors to enter a market or increase their20 of a market.

    If you don't think technology can improve your trip better, meet Judy. When she recently checked into the Biu Hotel in Zurich, a clerk asked her to pay hundreds of dollars higher than the online offer. It was not a cheap stay, but it became more of one after she fired up the Booking. Com app she'd used to purchase her room on her smartphone. “As soon as I showed him the rate, he honored it,” Judy says.

    Technology may create challenges for travelers-indeed, it may have led to Judy's rate confusion in the first place-but it can also solve them. The solutions go beyond making sure of a hotel rate. The latest version of Booking.com is among the most feature-rich booking programs. Users can select hotels by location, make a secure booking and view the confirmed rate.

    Another pain point for travelers is traffic that eats away precious vacation time. There's a new app for that, called Commute. As the name implies, it's aimed at users who have to make the same trip every day. Just input basic information about your destination and expected leaving time, and the app will start sending you traffic data 15 minutes before you leave.

    Another source of travel-related conflict and confusion is money. That's particularly true when you're dealing with a foreign currency. The latest version of Travel Money Tracker helps travelers prevent currency mix-ups. It instantly converts(兑换) a country's native currency to yours, so you know exactly how much that Espresso(浓咖啡) in Milan costs in dollars. One extra feature is the ability to set up an alert that tells you when you're overspending, which can sometimes be a problem when you're on vacation. The only catch, of course, is that you have to remember to record all your purchases.

    One day when I was five years old, my mother took me to a swimming pool. She wanted to teach me how to swim. (sad), I was almost drowned. I was rescued by a man, my mother was so (frighten) that she decided never to let me get close to a swimming pool again. , I thought quite differently. Instead of letting that horrible incident create more fear around water for me, I decided to become a good  (swim). After I told my mother about that, she thought I was right and (agree). So I started to learn how to swim again. My mother became more careful and I was not in danger again. Later I became interested in swimming that I decided to compete in swimming events. After years of efforts, my dream came true. I was the first African American (win) an Olympic Gold Medal in swimming. I did so at both 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

     Now I spend much of my time (help) children learn how to swim. Hundreds of children each year drown in the United States.(learn) how to swim can prevent 80% of these tragedies.